Norwegian Labor Party

The Norwegian Labor Party is a social democratic political party in Norway that was founded on 21 August 1887. The party steadily increased its support until it became the largest party in Norway in 1927, but the party suffered from internal divisions; it was a member of Comintern from 1919 to 1923, and it was not until the end of the decades that the party was consolidated. The Labor Party led the Norwegian government for all but 16 years from 1935 to 2017, and the party had an absolute majority in the parliament from 1945 to 1961. The party's domination was broken in the 1970s by the rival Socialist Left Party of Norway, and it began to lose voters to the right in the late 1970s. During the 1980s, the party began to turn to the right under the leadership of Gro Harlem Brundtland, and the party achieved its worst results since 1924 in 2001. The party continued to decline as the 21st century progressed, with the Conservative Party of Norway and the Liberal Party of Norway allying against the social democrats. In 2017, the Labor Party held 49/169 Storting seats, 278/728 County Council seats, 3,465/10,781 Municipal/City Council seats, and 10/39 Sami Parliament seats.